[You (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?=)] >[Rob Browning] >> What I would like to see considered for policy (because I'm lazy), is >> that for packages that only have info pages, in lieu of writing >> manpages (which may or may not actually happen), we have a manpage >> info-documented.1.gz that says more or less [...] >> The maintainer for the package can then just copy this page, modify it >> to fit their package, and put in the relevant manpage symlinks for >> "foo, bar, and baz". Note that the Debian package name should always >> be one of the symlinks.
> Bad idea. > > Most users hate info documentation, that's a fact. And they would hate a >distribution with only-info docs. > > Updating the manpages it's a cut&paste work, and `sort''s interface rarely >changes. I don't think we should require package maintainers to copy info files into man pages. We might hope or suggest for this to happen. I think Ron's alternative is acceptable, too. Either/or. I would hate to require either one. .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
